No need to take off your shoes. TSA has a new screening policy already in effect at some airports
Are you afraid to take off your shoes while passing through the airport safety?
This requirement disappears in the airports in the United States, ie representatives for the transportation safety administration will allow you to keep your shoes open when you enter a security scan.
Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Tuesday afternoon announced the change.
“We know that when the President of Trump is elected, he promises to make life better for all Americans, and this contains travelers passing through our busy airports,” he said.
Noem said that it is important to facilitate the process as it is looking forward to the big events such as US Olympics and the World Cup that will bring “record travelers”.
“Many people will be in the airlines traveling into and out of our airports, and it is important to find ways to keep people safe, to make them much more enjoyable for each person and to make the process much more enjoyable,” he said.
The US Federation of government employees also confirmed that some airports accepted the new policy on Friday and that agency instructors are working to update TSA officers. Washington reported post.
How will safety demonstrations change?
Aircraft travelers will pass through multiple scanning layers such as authentication, scanning of the carrying baggage and individual scanning without having to remove their shoes.
Noem may be an example when a TSA agent determines that additional scanning is needed and that travelers will be asked to remove their shoes.
Which airports have already started shoe policy?
On Tuesday, the Politics, Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Cincinnati/North Kentucky International Airport, Portland International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport and Piedmont Triad International Airport were quietly published. According to CBS News.
Noem, the new policy will be implemented rapidly at airports throughout the country, he said.
Each airport has different scanning equipment with changing capabilities, but Noem said that the federal agency “Each airport evaluates the equipment it has” and that the airports will still have security needs at every checkpoint ”.
What about lax?
It is unclear when Los Angeles International Airport will present the new policy. LAX officials referred to TIM’s questions about the change in TSA.
Meanwhile, TSA’s new shoe scanning policy will only benefit passengers passing through the normal security checkpoint. Travelers who apply for accelerated scanning through TSA Precheck or Clear, registered and pay for payment are exempt from removing their shoes during scanning.
Throwing the shoes of the travelers in a garbage box that needs to be scanned Founded in 2006 In December 2001, months after 9/11 terrorist attacks, after an incident where an British man flight with homemade bombs hidden in their shoes.
During a American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, Richard Colvin Reid tried to explode his shoes, but struggled to illuminate the insurance. Federal Investigation Office.
The crew members and passengers restrict Reid; The flight was directed to the Logan International Airport in Boston, where civil servants were detained.
According to Federal officials, Reid admitted that he made shoe bombs that hold 10 ounces explosives to FBI agents.
It is not surprising to get rid of the policy of taking shoes
In April, TSA announced that it was working with the Ministry of Internal Security to develop saf new generation passenger screening technology ”in order to make security screening more efficient. According to the agency.
John Fortune, Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Internal Security, leads the department’s airport passenger scanning research.
According to the federal agency, the team developed ways to improve the existing technology used in the scanning machine you stand with your hands and created a sharper X-ray images.
TSA reported that Fortune and his team are currently investigating a spare or strengthening to target target shoes, especially the existing passenger scanning systems.
“How do you apply a shoe scan or put it in an existing portal system where the person is already standing while scanning his shoes at the same time?” he said. Mi Can it be placed anywhere in another place where it can increase productivity at the checkpoint? It involves the redesign of any real -time scanning checkpoint. ”
Internal security did not respond to Times’s question about Fortune’s work and the announcement of the new policy on the removal of the shoes.
During the statement of Tuesday, Noem said that the federal agency could implement other security scanning technology and that he would pilot several different security checkpoints throughout the country, which will allow individuals to come from a security checkpoint and perhaps to interact with civil servants, to walk on the machines, to keep their bags with them, to remove their laptops.
He predicted that pilot programs could be explored within the next six to nine months.
